Marilyn Schwartz: Catalog of Works and Images

Later stationed out in Staten Island, she photographed many buildings of historical significance for the New York Landmarks Commission, The U.S, Coast Guard Station, Richmondtown, Sailor’s Snug Harbor as well as a traveling dance company and photographic assistance to the Staten Island Children’s Museum. Schwartz became involved in the women’s movement she participated in picketing MOMA for greater representation of women artists, while taking photographs of the demonstrating artists.

She has also been on the scene during peace marches, women’s rights, black rights and more recently a colorful celebration of Gardens and Earth Day in the East Village, NYC. She has written poetry since a teen and sees close connections between her poetry and her photography . Her photographs were published in New York Magazine, Prentice Hall, Houghton Mifflin, Forbes Magazine, Staten Island Architectural History, Jazz Magazine (Fr.), and others.

Schwartz has been on assignment and published by MS Magazine and been exhibited at Aud Art Gallery, The Staten Island Museum, Westbeth Gallery, The Staten Island Children’s Museum, Gallery 84, Bucher and Harpsichords, Donnell Library, Newhouse Gallery at Snug Harbor, S.I., the Stedeljik Museum in Amsterdam and Museo Del Arte De Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico, Soho Arts Festival, and others. In 2012, photographs by Schwartz of the New York Art Quartet (Jazz), Call it Art from 1964-1965 were published by Triple Point records in a boxed limited-edition release.

Photographs were also used in 2013 by Alan Roth at Asymmetric Pictures for his documentary, the Breath Courses Through Us, a jazz film. The photographs of Marilyn Schwartz are in the collection of the Museum of the City of New York, the Staten Island Museum, The New York Historical Society and the Museum of Modern Art archives.